Miguel Hernández | Santurce, Puerto Rico

Industry: Arts
Occupation: Artist
Location: Palm Bay : FL : United States

About Me

Considered a primitive post-modern artist, Miguel Hernández ‘s work cultivates this genre almost from the beginning of his career. He was greatly influenced through primitive Haitian art, especially in his first direct contacts with art through the work of the Spanish painter Angel Botello Barros, whose influence can be appreciated directly in visits to his workshop. Eventually he is able to take several trips to the Dominican Republic and Haiti where he studies and gathers influences of the art and coloring of the painting from the Haitian teachers. His art is obviously marked by the influence and experiences of his native town of Santurce in Puerto Rico, where he gathers all the folklore that characterizes his work and the big African Antillean influence that is perceived in his art, giving him a universal sense to his work that arises from the spontaneity with which it develops personages and situations of his local environment projecting them across the magic of the oil towards a wider dimension, without it losing the simple-mindedness and the Caribbean color that characterizes his work.